Verhagen, Jop (2023) Dutch case study: Childhood socioeconomic status and health at older age. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
Already, research has been performed, showing the health gap that exists based on socioeconomic status. This study tries to strengthen the existing literature on the relationship between childhood socioeconomic status and health at an older age. This study analyses secondary quantitative data from the SHARE database. It uses data from 2019/2020, which was collected by performing interviews with Dutch citizens older than 60. The research looks for a relationship between childhood socioeconomic status, with the level of education as an explanatory variable for socioeconomic status and self-perceived health as the binary outcome variable. The main question is formulated as follows: How does childhood socioeconomic status affect self-perceived health at older ages in the Netherlands? The literature suggests that a relationship between education and health at older age exists. The Chi-square test showed a weak relation between the level of education and self-perceived health. However, when controlling with cofounders in a binary regression, no differences in the odds ratio for the level of education were found. This indicates that for the population, no inferences can be made on education impacting self-perceived health. The results are not in line with the expectations created in the theoretical framework. The insignificance of the explanatory variable in the binary regression makes it hard to draw conclusions. Multiple shortcomings of the research are discussed in the discussion section, referring to possible explanations on why the results do not match the expectations from the literature. Further research could focus on which policies would help with decreasing the health inequalities gap.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Vogt, T.C. and Bister, L. |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2023 08:25 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2023 08:25 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4152 |
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